|
2/4
|
88%
|
Girl Rising (2013) |
"
The price of good intentions is that it looks and feels like an extended public-service announcement for goodness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Sometimes Oblivion can be pretty oblivious."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Koch (2013) |
"
What he really was was one of a kind. Whether intentionally or not, "Koch" shows that that's not necessarily a bad thing."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
57%
|
High Tech, Low Life (2013) |
"
"High Tech, Low Life" (not a good title) has a nice easy rhythm. It feels neither hurried nor emphatic."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
92%
|
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
People who weren't around during the '60s-'70s cusp can hardly appreciate just how weird that time was. "Free Angela" brings that weirdness back."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
Bertrand does his jelly-belly best to keep "Starbuck" a comedy. But even the broadest shtick can't prevent a movie that features a Busby Berkeley-style group hug from becoming a male weepie."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
"Upside Down" gives you four movies for the price of one."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
31%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
It's a rich and significant subject for scholars, but not exactly filmic."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Little Fugitive (The Coney Island Kid ) (1953) |
"
That the filmmakers were able to make "Little Fugitive" at all is kind of miraculous, but the miraculousness has its limits."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
89%
|
A Place at the Table (2013) |
"
A tighter focus, or even just a voiceover narration, might have helped."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
85%
|
How To Re-establish A Vodka Empire () |
"
Too many of the scenes here - a busted elevator, walking an elderly dog - seem included because Edelstyn didn't have any sense of structure or, worse, what exactly he was after."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 27, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
The film has a relaxed, matter-of-fact feel."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
80%
|
Hitler's Children (2012) |
"
The moral weight of "Hitler's Children" is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
80%
|
Orchestra Of Exiles (2012) |
"
Writer-director Josh Aronson's flaccid "Orchestra of Exiles" squanders the material's promise."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Brooklyn Castle (2012) |
"
Katie Dellamaggiore's lively and affecting documentary introduces us to a cast of characters that's very winning (in both senses of the word)."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Love And Other Anxieties () |
"
"Love and Other Anxieties" is amiable and earnest and has the courage not to force answers to unanswerable questions. It's also tentative and pallid and seems a bit afraid of those questions."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
45%
|
The Details (2012) |
"
The movie is many things, but a mess isn't one of them. Estes knows exactly what he wants. Whether it's worth wanting is another matter."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
The Other Dream Team (2012) |
"
Clearly, there's a story here. The documentary "The Other Dream Team" tells it in a smart, lively, if somewhat hectic fashion."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
28%
|
Backwards (2012) |
"
The neatness of the plotting becomes almost comical after a while. Construction is one thing; contrivance is another."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
65%
|
Solomon Kane (2012) |
"
Who knew there were skinhead and zombie equivalents in late-Elizabethan England?"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Chicken with Plums (2012) |
"
"Predictability" is not in Satrapi and Paronnaud's vocabulary, and that is no small thing in this or any other movie era. But the whole those parts form never exceeds their sum."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
What Time Is Left () |
"
There's a callowness to "What Time Is Left" that's understandable in a first film - but dismaying in light of the subject of that film."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
84%
|
Detropia (2012) |
"
"Detropia" feels somewhere between loose (which is good) and aimless (which isn't)."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
0%
|
Last Ounce of Courage (2012) |
"
The problem with this numbskull travesty isn't that it's fatuous and smug (which it is). It's that it's slack and dull."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
62%
|
It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl (2012) |
"
Richard Trank's film is sober, detailed, and handsomely mounted. Ben Kingsley narrates, to excellent effect."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
Samsara (2012) |
"
The result is like an issue of National Geographic gone mad."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
64%
|
Kumaré (2012) |
"
There's a Morgan Spurlock narcissism to "Kumaré." It could just as well have been called "Super-Spiritualize Me.""
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
54%
|
The Inbetweeners (2012) |
"
Who knew that when the "Porky's" movies (finally) died, they went to England?"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
26%
|
2016: Obama's America (2012) |
"
Viewers may do some headscratching. This can be a very strange movie."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 31, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
Much of the action may be nearly as grim as in director John Hillcoat's previous feature, "The Road" - "Lawless" is very bloody - but the scenery and production design are a whole lot nicer."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
4%
|
The Apparition (2012) |
"
The entity is a ghostly presence amid an even ghostlier absence. This is truly distressed real estate."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
Poor Pattinson does the best he can. He's not terrible. But he's definitely out of his element, if not beyond his depth, an altar boy in a bishop's robes."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
"Premium Rush" has a lot of energy - too much, it's kind of exhausting. It also has a lot of trickiness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
87%
|
Robot & Frank (2012) |
"
"Robot & Frank" isn't sure whether it's a comedy or drama, buddy movie or sci-fi fantasy, family melodrama or social satire."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
There is a level of stupidity displayed by the people in this movie that beggars belief. Their behavior is to stupidity as the Death Star is to a doughnut."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
When Shepard's on, though, he's really on. There's hardly anything rote or predictable about "Hit & Run," other than its title."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
95%
|
The Imposter (2012) |
"
Beverly Dollarhide, Nicholas's mother, says of the period after her son's disappearance, "My main goal in life at that time was not to think." Apparently, the filmmakers have taken a cue from her."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 16, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
73%
|
Dark Horse (2012) |
"
Solondz has made a career out of specializing in highly aberrant views of middle-class life."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
"Hope Springs" panders with the clumsiness of grown-ups trying to do "Step Up" dance moves."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
79%
|
Klown (2012) |
"
It can seem sometimes that Hollywood has a monopoly on stupid, obnoxious comedy. Anyone who sees "Klown" will learn otherwise."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
Kazan isn't beautiful. She's not even pretty, at least not in any conventional way. But she's enormously attractive, and the camera can't get enough of that heart-shaped face and those bouncing bangs."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Easy Money (2012) |
"
The hand-held camerawork may be shaky, and the editing flit furiously - but Espinosa has them shaking and flitting on purpose."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012) |
"
Miike can't seem to get enough of Hanshiro's heroics. That's not just visual excess, though."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
94%
|
Farewell, My Queen (2012) |
"
The guillotine's blade is, as yet, nowhere to be heard. But you can feel Jacquot's pleasure is slicing and dicing this material in novel ways."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
The Well Digger's Daughter (2012) |
"
Auteuil the director knows not to get in the way of Pagnol's plot machinery. Auteuil the actor is another story."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
71%
|
Sacrifice (2012) |
"
Now who exactly are those two guys slurping noodles? Are they both doctors? Why do they matter?"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
71%
|
Natural Selection (2012) |
"
[Harris is] the one good thing in "Natural Selection.""
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
The Invisible War (2012) |
"
"The Invisible War" makes all too clear that the military isn't very good at justice."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
Madea's Witness Protection (2012) |
"
Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 1, 2012
|
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